subject: Duke University - The NO.14 of QS World University Rankings 2010 [print this page] Duke University - The NO.14 of QS World University Rankings 2010
Duke University - The NO.14 of QS World University Rankings 2010. Every year QS World University Rankings will post a ranking of the world's top 500 universities by Quacquarelli Symonds using a methodology since 2004.
As the NO.14 of QS World University Rankings 2010, Duke University has many different place and advantage from other University. Here are some data for Duke University from Quacquarelli Symonds:
Country Size Research Focus Score
United States L VH FC 92.29
About Duke University: Duke University is a private research university located in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day town of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco industrialist James Buchanan Duke established The Duke Endowment, prompting the institution to change its name in honor of his deceased father, Washington Duke.
The University is organized into two undergraduate, ten graduate and professional schools, and seven institutes. In its 2011 edition, U.S. News & World Report ranked the university's undergraduate program 9th among national universities, while ranking the medical, law, public affairs, nursing and business graduate programs all among the top 12 in the United States. In the 2010 QS World University Rankings, Duke ranked 14th worldwide. Duke's research expenditures are among the largest ten in the nation. Competing in the Atlantic Coast Conference, Duke's athletic teams have twelve national championships, including four by its men's basketball team.
Besides academics, research, and athletics, Duke is also well known for its sizable campus and Collegiate Gothic architecture, especially the Duke Chapel. The forests surrounding parts of the campus belie the University's proximity to downtown Durham. Duke's 8,610 acres (35 km2) contain three contiguous campuses in Durham as well as a marine lab in Beaufort. Construction projects have updated both the freshmen-populated Georgian-style East Campus and the main Gothic-style West Campus, as well as the adjacent Medical Center over the past five years.
Duke started as Brown's Schoolhouse, a private subscription school founded in 1838, in Randolph County in the present-day town of Trinity. Brown's Schoolhouse was organized by the Union Institute Society, a group of Methodists and Quakers, and in 1841 North Carolina issued a charter for Union Institute Academy. The academy was renamed Normal College in 1851 and then Trinity College in 1859 because of support from the Methodist Church. In 1892, Trinity moved to Durham, largely due to generosity from Washington Duke and Julian S. Carr, powerful and respected Methodists who had grown wealthy through the tobacco industry. Washington Duke gave what was then known as Trinity College a $100,000 endowment in 1896, with the stipulation that the college "open its doors to women, placing them on an equal footing with men."
The Duke University is so good and nice. In 2011, I think that Duke University will be much batter, it is very good University.
